Music and other warblings from the man who should have shot JR

DATE ARCHIVES
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October 2011

Better known as one half of eccentric duo Fiery Furnaces, Eleanor Friedberger will release her debut solo album Last Summer on November 14th. Preceeding the album’s release is the autobiographical lead single ‘My Mistakes’ – a wonderfully catchy, playful and ditty piece of indie-pop and a superb song.

I’m looking forward to hearing the album in it’s entirety. If this is anything to go by, there should be lots to look forward to.

Last month, October 22nd to be precise witnessed the second ‘Barrygruff Presents’ show in Flanagan’s, Newbridge.

It was another huge success on all fronts. The place was packed to the bloody rafters, it was hard to believe it was only a Thursday night. Both performances from No Monster Club and We Are Losers were fantastic, it is not often you get to experience their music stripped back so wonderfully. There are a couple of videos below so you can see and hear for yourself. There’s no definite dates or acts booked for #3 yet but were working on it and when we know, you’ll know.

A massive thank you to Stephen Connelly for all the hard work, Tim Crowley for the sound/recording, Joe Dunne for the videos and to everyone who came down on the night (and anyone I’ve missed out).

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The Black Keys are back with the first taster from their forthcoming album, El Camino, due out in early December.

‘Lonely Boy’ is the first proper cut from the follow up to 2010’s Brothers. It is a catchy, energetic and racey blues rock song, just the kind of thing that we have come to love from the duo. Let’s just say it is sounding pretty on the first 30 or so listens.